The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
JAMES BALDWINLiterature is indispensable to the world.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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